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Re:Starbucks and TrustArc add fake cookie processing delay i... by Engineering-MD on Sunday September 12, 2021 @09:11AM (#28500835)
This argument can justify anything on that basis, from fraud to murder or slavery. By withdrawing your services to do it, you reduce supply, increasing prices and providing a financial penalty for trying to enact it.
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Re:Starbucks and TrustArc add fake cookie processing delay i... by hdjjhhvvhga on Sunday September 12, 2021 @09:19AM (#28500880)
Am I the only one seeing the irony of it? You are asking the guy who already added a ton of JavaScript junk to the website to have concerns about one delay function?
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Re:Starbucks and TrustArc add fake cookie processing delay i... by grishka on Sunday September 12, 2021 @10:57AM (#28501727)
There's plenty of people who would do whatever they're told, regardless of their own principles, as long as they're paid for it. I'm not one of them, sure, but as long as there's just ONE person like this, we can't have nice things in the long run.
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Re:Starbucks and TrustArc add fake cookie processing delay i... by inetknght on Sunday September 12, 2021 @04:41PM (#28504695)
> This argument can justify anything on that basis, from fraud to murder or slavery.

Interestingly there are laws and whistleblower protections against murder and slavery.

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